Avis Saltsman's & Ken Baldry's Talks - List of lectures available

.....which they are willing to give to societies & U3As in the London area & on Cruise Ships.

The talks are given with images projected by a video projector (they can bring one if needed) or to a modern, flat-screen telly attached to their laptop computers. The music talks also have built-in examples &, if your premises does not have one, Ken can bring a decent portable speaker system.

If you would like them to give a talk, contact them by e-mail on this link or by telephone on 020 7359 6294.

As they are crumblies, they do not have travel expenses in the London Freedom Pass area &
do not charge for talks. They have given talks to the University of the Third Age, two mental health charities, old peoples' clubs, clubs for the disabled & on cruise ships.

Most talks are available in one-hour versions (•) & many, also in three-quarter hour (cruise ship length) versions (•).
Remember to leave time for questions when you pick a length!

Talks by Avis about early 20th Century Art

Paul Gauguin 1848-1903 •

The first major symbolist.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 •

Expressionism and colour.

Paul Cezanne 1839-1906 •

Structure & analysis - the greatest of all?

Henri Matisse 1869-1954 •

Non-realistic colour for structure & emotion

The Fauves of 1904 •

Matisse & friends, the "wild beasts" of art

Cubism •

Picasso & Braque take Cezanne's structures to the limit

German Expressionism - Die Brucke •

German Expressionism - Der Blaue Reiter •

Paul Klee - Modernism can be Fun•

Modernism can be playful, too.

Russian Modernists (two talks) •

Several different but related movements on the fringes of Europe.

The Bauhaus, with Kandinsky •

The hugely influential German University of the Arts, pure & applied.

The Italian Futurists •

The recognition of a changing, mechanised, World.

The Vorticists •

Britain's own contribution to the revolution in art in 1914-15

Austrian Expressionism - Egon Schiele •

Anatomy & sexuality exposed. Some people may find some of the images in this talk very offensive, even pornographic. So, Ken does this Art talk.